Gulliver’s Travels, by Johnathan Swift

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on February 17, 2010

Sounding Smart (without being smart)

The most important factor regarding the travels of Gulliver is to be able to fluently recite the names of all the lands to which he voyages – not just Lilliput. Bobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Houyhnhnms, and Japan. You will receive extra-special secret points if, in the same conversation, you mention how someone’s asinine antics “remind you of a Yahoo.”